Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-07
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

Misunderstanding was popular an.
paying amusement yesterday.
The Board of Supervisors will commenc,
their March session this morning.
| Todhunter & Lynden, two well-knowr
| horsemen, have leased the Woodland race
| track.
Germania Rebekah Degree Lodge, /. o
O. F., will pay fraternal visit this
evening to Ell Dorado Lodge, No. s.
The Democrats have completed their
ticket for the city election by adding the
name OF w. w. Ellis for City Assessor.
Governor Bartlett has appointed w. P.
Gardiner as a Superior Judge for Los
Angeles county vice A. Branson, resigned.
F. H. L. Weber, candidate of the Pro-
hibitionists for Mayor, publishes his plat
form in the advertising columns this
morning.
The Sacramento river rose to II feet
inches under the influence of the late
rains but yesterday morning began to
slowly recede.
There is hope for John Rooney yet, says
the Folsom Telegraph. A colony of fifty
families of Presbyterians talk of locating
near Brighton.
At the A. NJ. E. Church this evening, at
s o'clock, lecture will be delivered on
1.-The Charleston Earthquake" and
Petra, the Rock City"
Notwithstanding the recent heavy rains,
the tracks at Agricultural Park are in
reasonably good condition, and the horse
men are exercising their animals steadily.
Counsel for George Van Kleek, charged
with obtaining money under false pretenses,
entered a demurrer Saturday to the new
information filed against the defendant,
and the Court took the matter under adj
visement.
James Flanagan, arrested for insanity,
was examined on Saturday by the Commits.
sioners of Lunacy and directed to be sent
to the County Hospital. He has been an
inmate of the insane asylum twice, and the
last time made his escape from the Napa
institution.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature Saturday and yesterday was
$40 and 400, with gentle southerly winds
and clear weather during Saturday and
CSC and 4lo, with gentle southerly winds
and foggy to clear weather yesterday, with
a steady barometer.
About 4 A. N. Saturday there were cries
of :" Murder p Police '' in the neighbor-
hood of Second and K streets. There were
no officers in the neighborhood at the time,
but it was subsequently reported that
Joseph Coffee had fight with his girl,
Ella Hogan, and gave her a whipping.
Sheriff Watkins, of Yolo county, sold at
Woodland on Saturday, by virtue of an
execution, about $500 acres of low lands
near Clarksburg to Dan. McCarty, of Sac
ramento, for $11, 500. The land was as
sessed to Sarah Miller, and has been in
litigation for long time. 1t was under
stood that the land was bid in according to
agreement of the creditors.
Judge Armstrong on Saturday rendered
an able and exhaustive decision in the
case of j. A. Golfer, the hay-fork swindler,
who recently had an examination at Wood
land and was held to answer before the Su-
perior Court. He ordered that Golfer be
remanded to the custody of the Sheriff of
Yolo county, and ex-Sheriff Beamer took
him back to Woodland that evening.
A well-known shotgun expert of this
city started down the lower Stockton road
yesterday to have duck hunt, but before
he reached his destination his Parker gun
got jolted out of the vehicle he was riding
in, and caused him to forget duck hunting
and start in upon gun hunt. which so far
has been unsuccessful, necessitating his
sending an advertisement to do the hunt
ing.
Arrived since last report: Steamer San
Joaquin No. 4, from San Francisco, with
merchandise, barge of up-river freight and
barge load of freight for Sacramento
steamer D. E. knight, from San Francisco,
en- route for Marysville, with merchandise.
Cleared Steamers San Joaquin No. 8, and
Clara Belle, for the upper Sacramento, with
merchandise steamer San Joaquin No. 4,
for San Francisco, with barge load of
goods.
Mary Johnson, the Terror from Den
YER" was released from the county Jail
Saturday morning. after serving term of
sixty days for disturbing the peace. Late
in the afternoon she was boisterously
drunk. and soon found herself occupying d
cell at the city prison. She tore up two
pairs of blankets in the cell, and, in addi-
ton to the charge of disturbing the peace
originally entered against her, the Chief
directed one of malicious mischief to be
made.